The complaint that is intended to be presented would be related to criteria issued by the director of SNAI, Fausto Cobo, during an interview this week.
Members of the National Association of Active Prison Servants of Ecuador (Asoserpen) attended this Thursday morning, to the Prosecutor’s Office of Pichincha to learn about the procedures that must be done to file a complaint to investigate the director of the National Service for Comprehensive Attention to Adults Deprived of Liberty and Adolescent Offenders (SNAI), Fausto Cobo, for the hate crime.
With weapons and tanks, soldiers are already touring the pavilions, patios and rooftops of the Litoral Penitentiary to try to stop confrontations
The complaint that is intended to be presented would come from the expressions that the SNAI official issued during a television interview given a few days ago and in which he indicated that the prison guards “are useless.” A small group of prison guides from Asoserpen, Led by a lawyer, they were finding out this morning at the Prosecutor’s Office how to formalize the request so that the existence of the crime that they claim existed is investigated and defined.
“The Social Rehabilitation System is collapsed, nobody has denied that. This body of prison guides is useless and it is the public force, that is, the Armed Forces and the Police, which has to impose order and the presence of the State. There is no other. I do not have command over the Police and the Armed Forces and that body of guides is not good for damn the thing“Cobo told the Teleamazonas chain.
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The group’s lawyer has indicated that they will collect the requested documentation and attach the necessary signatures before formally filing the criminal complaint. The complaint would be presented the morning of this Thursday, it was stated.
The statements of Fausto Cobo were given in the framework of the prison crisis that the country is going through and after the last event of violence inside the Litoral Penitentiary (Guayas), which occurred last weekend, which left more than 60 people deprived of liberty murdered and other wounded. At the moment, police and military personnel are inside the prison perimeter of the Center for the Deprivation of Liberty in the province of Guayas. (I)
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